A group of Russian-speaking cybercriminals has launched over 20 successful attacks against financial institutions and legal firms in the US, UK and Russia over the past two years, according to cyberime research firm Group-IB. [Read More]

While a credit freeze can protect against the opening of fraudulent credit accounts, it is not an inoculation against identity theft. What can be done to help protect identities and the attributes associated with them?

If the rest of the community would give hackers more of a chance before writing them off as evildoers, there would potentially be more incentives for capable people to go into the white hat hacking business.